Cold conditioning before force carbonation

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  1. mijclarke

    mijclarke Initiate (0) May 4, 2014 Illinois

    I threw loose hops (4oz) into 5 gallon corny keg (4 gallons worth of 6.3% verdant NEIPA) and threw into fridge. Figured I should leave the hops in disturbed and was planning on carbing at least a few days after adding hops. I have a floating dip tube but am a little worried that I could have some hop burn/bite especially since one of my two hops (mosaic and centennial) had a lot of powder pour out along with the pellets.

    Do you think force carbonating when hops are in suspension could create more hop burn or is my waiting for the hop sediment to settle being overly paranoid? And further would slow carbing be better than fast carbing as to not disturb the hop sediment?
     
    #1 mijclarke, May 6, 2022
  2. fAtHanD

    fAtHanD Crusader (443) Mar 7, 2007 Michigan

    Wondering what experience taught you on this?

    I just did a Cali Common with 3 oz of pellets thrown in at kegging and did not experience hop burn but understand that isn’t a ton of hops.
     
    #2 fAtHanD, May 24, 2022
  3. YourBeerRunner

    YourBeerRunner Aspirant (212) May 3, 2022

    Yeah, if any of that hop dust got into your tasting sample you would experience that bite. From my experience it can take a matter of days for the hop dust/powder to settle, and it has nothing to do with carbing and more to do with agitation + quantity of dust.
    Let it settle, filter it out, or whatever, but do what you must to make sure hop particles do not enter the finished beer. You can run a test by taking another sample, tasting it to verify the bite is still there, and then leaving it in the fridge -- see if anything settles out, and then taste it again.
     
    #3 YourBeerRunner, May 26, 2022
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